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National Festival 2027
Semi-Finals: March 23-27th at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa
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The Alberta Tournament is run through Rapid Fire theatre company. Please contact Dill Prusko at youth@rapidfiretheatre.com for information on how to register in Alberta!
Regional Tournament
Regional Tournament
Feb 2-6 at Miller Comprehensive High School
Junior Tournament
March 4-5 at Michael A Riffel Catholic High School
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Saturday November 21st at Lo-Ellen Park (Afternoon)
Regionals
Exhibition Night East:
Thursday, November 19th
Ajax High School: 105 Bayly St E, Ajax, ON L1S 1P2
All Teams Workshops and Exhibition North:
Saturday, November 21st
TD Christian High School: 377 Woodbridge Ave, Woodbridge, ON L4L 2V7
All Teams Workshops and Exhibition West:
Saturday, December 12th
Mayfield Secondary School: 5000 Mayfield Rd, Caledon Village
Regional Tournament:
Feb 10: Evening preliminary @ Second City Theatre 73
Feb 11 & 12: Evening preliminaries @ Mayfield Secondary School
Feb 13: Finals Matinee @ Second City MainStage
All-Teams and Exhibition Rounds
Saturday, November 7th – Chatham Kent SS (Chatham)
Saturday, November 28th – Huron Heights Secondary School (Kitchener)
Saturday, December 5th – John F. Ross CVI (Guelph)
Regional Tournament: February 16-20th at John F. Ross
Belleville Winter Workshops: Sat Nov 28 at Quinte Christian
Winter Workshops
Saturday, December 12th
Kingston ON, venue to be announced!
Regional Tournament
February 3-6th
Kingston ON, venue to be announced!
Ottawa All-Teams
October 26th, Merivale
Renfrew All-Teams
Date TBD, St Joseph’s Renfrew
Connor’s Cup
Dec 1-4, Nepean
OTTAWA REGIONAL TOURNAMENT
March 2nd – Sat March 6th 2027 (Subject to change, location TBD)
All-Teams and X-Rounds: November 7th at LCC
Regional Tournament: Feb 18-20th, 2027 at LCC
November 3 – All Teams
Cole Harbour High Cafetorium
December 3 – X-Round #1
Dartmouth High Keating Hall
January 7 – X-Round #2
Dartmouth High Keating Hall
February 23 – CIG Regionals – Night 1
Dartmouth High Keating Hall
February 24 – CIG Regionals – Night 2
Dartmouth High Keating Hall
For the first time since the pandemic, we are bringing CIG back to the New Brunswick/PEI Region! All events are in collaboration with IYS-Moncton.
All-Teams: Nov 7th
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Regional Tournament: February 6th and 7th, 2027.
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NEW: This year, the CIG Online Wildcard will be joining forces with the Distance tournament to create one, huge, epic ONLINE TOURNAMENT. That means you can join if you fit into the following categories:
Event dates:
Online evaluation submissions due Teams are allowed to submit up to two scenes, and will be provided adjudications from a CIG judge. Scenes can be submitted anytime from fall 2026 to Jan 15 2027. | Jan 15 |
Online evaluations returned Teams who submit scenes for evaluations will receive their adjudications by this date. Teams who submit earlier can be provided earlier adjudications. | Jan 29 |
Online submissions due All online teams must submit their four events by this date. Teams can submit anytime between January 2027 to Feb 12th 2027 | Feb 12th |
Online winner announced All teams will be informed of their score and ranking. This year, we will not be requiring resubmissions. | March 1st |
More information can be found at improv.ca/online.